Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
LARRY BIRDDon’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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I like being by myself.
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I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that’s how I perceived everything.
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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it..
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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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I just shoot until I feel good.
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I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.
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Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
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Who in their right mind wouldn’t listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he’s letting us do the things to have the success.
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